Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-16

Orders for general teamlng can be
left at the Phoenix engine house and will
receive prompt attention.
The senate bill to abolish the civil
Jurisdiction OF the Dodge county court
was non-concurred in by the assembly
yesterday.
= James Killiar has presented us wit
an Irish emblem fresh from the cold sod, )"
being sprig of shamrock from Carrick
on shannon, County Leitrim, Ireland.
Just in time tor the celebration Of St.
Patrick.
Gen. E. s. Bragg is confined to his
home in Fond du Lac Ivy blindness. His
eyesght failed him while he was out
driving. Partial paralysis has complete
" blinded one eye. The general thinks
the loss of sight is not permanent
Mrs J. W. Cole was the recipient
yesterday from a lady friend in San
Francisco, of bouquet of handsome
flowers fresh picked from the garden. In
their beauty and fragrance they attested
to the different conditions of climate
found in the United States.
The Milwaukee wheat market yes
terdav was unsettled, closing at SIC for
No. spring and 79c seller May. Flour
was unchanged. Barley closed at SIC
cash and 5218c seller May; rye at SIC;
corn at 391sc aud oats at &c. Hogs
were Sc higher, ranging at 5.3505.83.
Another horrible railway disaster is
reported A passenger train on the Bos
ton and Providence Railroad broke
through a bridge Monday morning, at
Jamaica Plain, near Boston, and twenty
seven persons are reported killed and
fifty Injured, many of them women.
We weren't taken in our statement
that the Gilman brick block now owned
by j. K Chappell, was the first brick
building erected in Watertown. That
honor belongs to the building occupied
bv W. ] Lee and ]. B. May, and built
by Head, the baker.
Department Commander of the G A
r., NJ. Griffin, has made the following
subordinate appointments: Assistant Ad-
iutant General, G. A. Barry, Eau Claire !;
AsSistan; Quartermaster General, Charles
W Mot, Milwaukee; Judge Advocate,
W II Beebe, Platteville; Inspector, L.
Furgeson, Brandon; Chief Mastering
Officer, James Miles, Reedsburg.
Marshal Zautner has received cir
cular from officials in some part of New
Mexico, asking for information about a
man named George Hill, who was shot
aud killed in that territory January
last. George Hill left here January 4,
but as the officers may have made mis-
take in giving the date of this murder
more unlikely things have happened than
that the circular may have reference to
the Watertown George Hill, who left our
midst SO unexpectedly.
AT a meeting at GAINESVILLE Of mill
owners in the Rock river valley it was de.
cided to take steps toward getting an ar
preparation from Congress for making
HORIZON Lake, in this state into a reser.
voir, thus guarding against freshets and
drouth. A similar scheme was recently
suggested by government engineers on
rivers tributary to the Mississippi.
The celebration of the 18th annivers
airy of Rescue Temple of Honor held las
Thursday evening, was q pleasant affair
and largely attended Addresses were
made by A. J. Smith, of Amherst, G. w
T.; w. H. CRUDE, of Madison, g. W. G
and w. H. Bolson, Of Oconomowoc, G
w. U. A grand banquet closed the pro
ceedings the ladies surprising the visnds